social climber

Definition of social climber

: one who attempts to gain a higher social position or acceptance in fashionable society

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Recent Examples on the Web The Wall Street Journal once compared Ms. Holzer to Jay Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s fictional social climber — mysterious, elegant and doomed. — New York Times, "Adela Holzer, Whose Fall From Grace Was Theatrical, Is Dead," 8 Jan. 2020 The shameless social climber was confronted and bowed out of the group. — Amy Dickinson, Washington Post, "Ask Amy: Parents want boyfriend to go, but daughter follows," 25 June 2019 And with three skilled actresses at the film’s center, characters that could so easily be reduced to familiar stereotypes — the crazy one, the conniving one, the social climber — are instead imbued with humanity. — Alissa Wilkinson, Vox, "The Favourite is a deliciously wicked tale of sex, women, and power plays," 21 Nov. 2018 Blame the social climbers on the board of Ruthie’s museum. — Joanne Kaufman, WSJ, "Summer Books: Beach Reading," 23 May 2018 As Weisberg point out, it was written by Lord Chesterfield, a scheming social climber who never intended for his correspondences with his son Philip to be published. — Jackie Mansky, Smithsonian, "What Makes the Advice Column Uniquely American," 19 Apr. 2018

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19 Jan 2020

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“Social climber.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/social%20climber. Accessed 26 Feb. 2020.

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